Jesus will not accept the common distinction between righteous indignation and unjustifiable anger. The disciple must be entirely innocent of anger, because anger is an offence against both God and his neighbour.
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Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God taught as the Christian "conception" of God.
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It is not at all surprising that the disciples imagined that the law had been abrogated, when Jesus made promises like this. For these promises reversed all popular notions of right and wrong, and pronounced a blessing on all that was accounted worthless.
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The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.
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The call goes forth, and is at once followed by the response of obedience. The response of the disciples is an act of obedience, not a confession of faith in Jesus.
Dietrich BonhoefferSuffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master. Following Christ means passio passiva, suffering because we have to suffer.
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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
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Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
Dietrich BonhoefferThe truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ
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